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Morocco places limits on preachers Friday sermons
Morocco, Politics, 6/14/2002
Morocco has banned mosques imams in the country from engaging in any "electoral propaganda" during the weekly sermons of Friday.
"It is forbidden for Imams to undertake any form of party or electoral propaganda at the Friday sermons," Moroccan minister of Habous (endowments) and Islamic affairs, Abdelkbir Alaoui M'daghri said Wednesday.
"The preachers have the right to adhere to political parties, but must not use mosques to diffuse political or electoral propaganda," he said, adding that most imams respect their noble mission.
Any preacher who would support or attack any political side will be severely penalized, the minister insisted.
The move is part of Morocco's drives to ensure free and honest elections next September.
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